The death of Alice Ayres is one of self-sacrifice. Alice rescued three of her nieces from a fire before falling from a window and later dying from her injuries. She is buried in Isleworth Cemetery with a red, granite obelisk over her grave.

A ten foot obelisk marks the grave of Emory Rains in Emory City Cemetery, Emory, TX. Rains was a prominent civic leader in the early days of Texas, and both this county and its county seat are named for him.